Wow, this report is surprising. The World Bank underwent a exhaustive investigation of Arafat's secret horde of cache. In a nutshell, donor countries have been giving money to Palastine for decades, and almost all of it went to Arafat. WHat did he do? Kinda smart, he didn't use it a la Saddam, to support his lifestyle, he invested almost all of it. Now about 10 billion in cash is sitting in funds waiting to be used.

Now it's a big political struggle, because the people who control the funds are not the newly appointed democratic leadership, but former Arafat cronies.

Story here.